Compliance Strategy: Enforcement and the Provision of Accurate and Relevant Information

This paper presents a discussion of the importance of a compliance strategy to intelligent transportation systems (ITS). An adequate level of compliance with signs and signals is a requirement of any ITS scheme to maintain the safety of motorists and road workers and to ensure that the benefits of the scheme are not compromised through inappropriate driver behavior. The authors build upon previous work which discussed how a comprehensive compliance strategy can provide benefits on the network where there are known or expected issues surrounding safety and/or network performance. They consider whether it is necessary to enforce a scheme to obtain an acceptable level of compliance and how accurate and reliable information can contribute to the process. They describe how this can be managed, as well as how the provision of information can be used to manage this relationship. Components of compliance discussed include operations, procurement, technology, the political agenda, stakeholder management, and driver behavior. The relationship between technology, compliance and the type and amount of information provided to motorists is considered through an example compliance strategy for an ITS scheme. The authors conclude that new technologies, such as satellite navigation and mobile phones, will provide information to motorists in new and varied forms and it is essential that the right balance of information is provided to ensure that information overload for the driver does not occur.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Pickworth, John
  • Marsh, Paul
• Conference:
  • 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting
  • Location: New York NY, United States
  • Date: 2008-11-16 to 2008-11-20
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 7p
• Monograph Title: ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile drivers; Behavior; Compliance; Comprehension; Highway safety; Information display systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Legibility; Technological innovations; Traffic law enforcement; Variable message signs; Work zone traffic control
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01138616
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 19 2009 1:49PM